The president, Donald Trump, announced on Wednesday a new private health monitoring system that would facilitate access to their medical records and the control of their well -being, although it has raised concerns in privacy.
“The transfer of health data is a dream come true,” Trump said when presenting the program at an event at the White House this Wednesday. “We are taking an important step to enter the digital era of health care. We have to move from faxes to a much faster system,” he added.
He affirmed that patients and health suppliers must count a much more efficient system and assured that standards have been established to save medical records, “even when they are different networks or programs.”
“Instead of arriving the same papers in each medical appointment, patients will be able to provide all their information simply by pressing a button. There will not be a centralized database and the government will not have access to that data,” he said.
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During the event it was announced that the program has already joined 60 companies providing health care.
The collaboration between the Federal Government and the large technology companies would allow patients to carry out a more fluid monitoring and share their medical records or data with other doctors, hospital systems and health applications, according to the administration and the participating companies.
Trump made the announcement during an act at the White House called “Making Health Technology Great Again” (let’s make health technology again), which will take place this Wednesday.
This is how it will work
The system will be maintained by the Federal Government through the Medicare and Medicaid Service Centers (CMS). Patients will have to give their consent to share their medical records and data, which, according to CMS, will be safe.
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Once the patient is in the system, their information could be shared between applications or health systems that have been added to the initiative. Thus, for example, the Apple Health application of iPhone, which records your daily steps or your dream, could access your doctor’s laboratory results. According to the Trump administration, gathering all that information will offer a more complete vision of your health.
Experts worries
The Department of Health and Human Services states that 60 companies have pledged to work with the system and “offer results to the American people in the first quarter of 2026”.
Patient defenders and ethics specialists have affirmed that many may be concerned about how medical information could be used, something that Americans have carefully protected for a long time, for ways of surveillance that do not want or do not expect.
“There are huge ethical and legal concerns,” said Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University specialized in public health. “Patients from all over the United States should be very concerned that their medical records are used in ways that harm their families.”
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In addition, the defenders of digital privacy are skeptical about the possibility that patients can trust that their data will be stored safely.
“This plan is an open door to greater use and monetization of sensitive and personal health information,” said Jeffrey Chester, of the Center for Digital Democracy.
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